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The Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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In Crawfordsville, 19-year-old Wm. Ansberry died after his mother gave him morphine instead of quinine. Inquest revealed she claimed to buy it locally, but druggists denied the sale.
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CRAWFORDSVILLE, Sept. 24.—Wm. Ansberry, a young man about nineteen years old, died yesterday under peculiar circumstances. He was not feeling well on Thursday, and his mother gave him a dose of quinine, as she supposed. When the family awoke the next morning he was found to be dying. Physicians were summoned, but could do nothing to relieve him, and he died. The drug was produced, and proved to be morphine, and it was found that he had been given five grains. The coroner held an inquest to-day, and Mrs. Ansberry testified that she bought the drug at the store of Moffett, Morgan & Co. for quinine. The druggists, however, swore that no woman was in their store on Thursday afternoon who asked for either quinine or morphine, and that Mrs. Ansberry must have been mistaken in the place where she procured the drug.
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Crawfordsville
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Sept. 24
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wm. ansberry died from five grains of morphine, mistakenly given as quinine. coroner held inquest; druggists denied sale.
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Wm. Ansberry, about nineteen years old, was given a dose of what his mother thought was quinine on Thursday when not feeling well. Next morning, he was found dying. Physicians could not help, and the drug proved to be morphine. Mrs. Ansberry testified she bought it at Moffett, Morgan & Co. for quinine, but druggists swore no such sale occurred.